OUR PRIVILEGE by Helen Mc Kinnon

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 2, 1901

OUR PRIVILEGE

By Helen Mc Kinnon

HELEN MC KINNON (Toronto, Ontario)

Now as never before it seems fitting that the people of God should have their attention riveted upon the books of Daniel and Revelation; for the closing scenes of these prophecies are living realities before us. All around us men and nations are acting out in detail what the seer, hundreds of years ago, foretold would appear, so that the word-pictures, or symbols, have become living actors.

The blessing of Rev. 1:3 is given to certain ones, and yet it is not withheld from any. How is it to be obtained?—By reading, hearing, and keeping. Every endeavor that we are capable of should be put forth; for “the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it.” Prov. 10:22.

In our experience in the Reading Circle work last year, we found mothers so anxious to be partakers of this blessing that the Word was placed by the washtub, ironing-board, dish-pan, or some place near where they were working, that they might catch a few words to study and think about while busy with their hands. It was noted at the weekly meetings that those who studied and worked the hardest were the most enthusiastic, and were ready and anxious to do missionary work. The spirit of the gospel in the days of the second advent of the Saviour is the same as it was in the days of the first advent,—the believers desire others to be partakers of their blessings.

Each Seventh-day Adventist, no matter in what part of the world he may be, has the privilege of being a watchman upon the walls of Zion, ready to give neighbors and friends, from the sure word of prophecy, the tokens of the near approach of the long-looked-for morning, when “thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.”